‘Bombshell’ Report Says UAE Explicitly Warned Netanyahu of October 7 Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Ronen Zvulun/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ‘Bombshell’ Report Says UAE Explicitly Warned Netanyahu of October 7 Attack Haaretz also reported that Hamas immediately offered to release all the Israeli hostages it had taken in the attack, demanding nothing in return, but Israel refused the deal. Policy experts in the US and Middle East on Tuesday were among those responding to an “astonishing” new investigation from Haaretz, which detailed how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was alerted weeks before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack that a “major event” was being planned by the Palestinian group—an assault that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and which Israel has responded to by slaughtering more than 73,000 Palestinians so far in Gaza . Highlighting revelations contained in an upcoming book called Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment , by journalists Shlomi Eld...